Before adding anything to the keg and hooking up the co2. Notice me in the reflection of the TV. There is also the food dehydrator and a box of fermenting beer that will be added to the keg.
Just a closer image, all you have to do to fit a 5 gallon keg in a small fridge like this is take off the rubber lining and unscrew the inside door rack. We pushed back the bottom of the freezer cooling pad to utilize the space. Notice that there is some left over beer in the liquid line, this will get pushed out with the new stuff.
Addtion of the 5 lb. co2 tank and a bottle of my Tyr's Dark Honey Porter on top of the keggerator. This beer turned out so dark that it wouldn't self carbonate much at all, so its going in the keg.
Adding more Tyr's to the keg, funnel to help the process, got a little foamy in there but going to force carbonate anyways.
Oh look, its a lot of empty beer, and one for good measure.
Put the keg and co2 in the keggerator, turned the co2 up to 30 psi and let stand for about 2 days. You can't really tell, but there is a frozen gallon of water in back of the co2 tank, this is because when drilling the hole for the tap, we hit the freon line, so this whole apparatus isn't plugged in. Something to take into account when your making yours. You can find the Standard Homebrew Kegerator Conversion Kit we used here.
After the clean up close up shot, isn't it pretty.
A wide angle, a few bottles that have to be cleaned out, and the chest freezer that keeps me able to get the keggerator cold, there is currently about 10 gallon jugs getting frozen to be switched out per day.
A shot of a new wood tap handle and octagonal drip tray that I ordered from Williams Brewing.
And a close up of the new parts, they do add a little something to it, I think.
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